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OCR Page 1 of 15THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Aboard Air Force One)
For Immediate Release
June 1, 2000
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Today I am pleased to announce that new guidance is being released that builds on my
Administration's long-standing commitment to reform welfare, reward work, and support
working families in their transition from welfare to work. The Departments of Health and
Human Services, Labor, and Transportation are releasing updated guidance on how states and
communities can coordinate federal resources to address the transportation challenge in moving
people from welfare to work. The guidance provides a variety of innovative strategies that
communities can fund, ranging from making public transit more accessible for weekend and
evening shifts to helping individuals lease, purchase or repair a car. In addition, the Departments
of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services are releasing new guidance
for housing and welfare agencies to work together to help families in public and assisted housing
move toward self-sufficiency using services, such as job search assistance, mentoring,
counseling, transportation, and child care.
A new evaluation of the Minnesota Family Investment Program confirms that promoting and
rewarding work has powerful positive impacts on low-income families. The Minnesota results
show that welfare reform can substantially increase employment, reduce poverty, decrease levels
of domestic abuse, and improve children's behavior and school performance when states
combine strong work requirements with investments in supports for low-income working
families. Employment and earnings impacts were especially large for families in public and
assisted housing. This research also found that welfare reform can increase marriage rates and
marital stability among low-income families.
These results highlight the importance of the interagency guidance on housing and transportation
released today and the need for continued investments to support working families. I call on the
Congress to enact my budget proposals to support working families: expanding the Earned
Income Tax Credit, improving access to affordable and quality child care, expanding health care
for low-income working families, providing more housing vouchers for hard-pressed working
families, helping more low-income families get to work by making it easier for them to own a
car or obtain public transportation, and helping more low-income fathers work and support their
children.
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